New Super Worship Backing Track Chord Charts!

Praise and Worship Backing Track Super Chord Charts

Our new Worship Backing Band MultiTrack Player and the simpler SplitTrack video downloads are selling really well. Inevitably we’ve had lots of people asking for chord charts. With so many free (read “illegal”) chord charts on the internet, often with inaccurate chords and different arrangements to our backing tracks we wanted to create chord charts woth some great additional content.

What’s wrong with traditional chord charts?

Most chord charts don’t give you enough information. They are OK as a guide if your musicians know the song really well but what about the structure of the song? When does the double chorus happen? What about the arrangement when the drums drop out for two bars on verse 3? How do we communicate that? What about the bars and how do the musicians know when to change chord, especially if they haven’t got a full score or if they don’t read music? How do we know which chord to end on? What about the strumming pattern, or the drum groove? And what about if it’s played in a guitar unfriendly key and they need to transpose it for a capo? And are the chord charts you are using even legal?

We’ve addressed all those issues in our brand new concept the “Super” Chord Chart.

Each Super Worship Chord Chart features:

The entire song on a single sheet (a second complete sheet for capo chords)

The song title, key and capo fret positioning

Each song part clearly divided into easy-to-follow sections

Bar lines between words

Exact intro and outro sequences

A breakdown and map of the song structure

Notes on when instruments drop in and out

Chord diagrams of recommended chord shapes that sound best with that song

Depending on your feedback and sales levels we will make more chord charts available in due course. Please let us know what you think of them. They are a lot of work to produce – time we could spend on other projects – so we only want to continue with these if you genuinely find them useful.

Why are you charging for our chord charts?

Whilst the internet is awash with free chord charts they are often wrong and very basic. With a few exceptions these online charts are also breaking copyright law. We are charging for our chord charts for two reasons. Firstly, we have to pay the original songwriter/publisher a fee for each chart downloaded. Secondly, we’ve crammed LOADS of extras into our charts including chord shapes, strumming pattern, song pathway, bar lines, full words and more. Some of the songs are in different keys to the usual recordings (we try to ensure the keys are nice and “congregational”) and some of the arrangements are a little different to some that you might be familiar with. We hope you feel that they are value for money.

OK folks. We get the point. We’ve sold loads of these since launching so I guess a lot of people are happy to buy from the
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The reason we haven’t launched with a free sample is that it’s simply not legal for us to do so. We have to pay royalties for each chart downloaded.

We’ll talk to our designer about trying to come up with a template that shows you the detail without effectively giving the word/chord sequence away (i.e. the copyrighted part). He’s on holiday at the moment so this will probably be a couple of weeks.

You could find yourself a Public Domain song that is generally used in churches – off the top of my head, how about ‘I stand amazed’, ‘O come let us adore Him’, or ‘How great Thou art’? That way, there’s a free sample that can actually be used within a real-life situation.

Do these charts come free with the purchase of the same MultiTrack song? I actually cannot even figure out how to buy a Super Chord Chart, and therefore I can’t really give any feedback other than I like the idea…

We have two other customers who seem to be getting the home page when they go to this link. One is using Linux and Chromium but managed to get in using Firefox so maybe try changing browser if you’re not on something standard?

Let us know your browser and version as I’ll check the Magento forums to see if this is a common problem.

Rob Morley

They are good, I bought the one for the free multitrack of Immanuel, it came with different chord charts for capo use. I highly recommend them, I don’t understand the hesitancy when the multitrack player and tracks are so good.